Tron Legacy: fashion tie-ins

21 October 2010 Rob Buckley Film 1 Comment

Well, I never. Tron wasn’t exactly the most fashion-conscious of films:

Bruce Boxleitner in Tron

I mean, can you see yourself wearing that. If you can, may I advise against it?

Tron Guy

There. That’s better. Hopefully, I’ve just cured you of that particular faux pas.

Thankfully for current and future generations, Tron: Legacy is proving to be a bit more tasteful in its outfit choices. Here’s Olivia Wilde and a ‘Siren’ from the new movie:

The women of Tron

You could just about get away with either of those in certain clubs. And if you’re a bloke, you could probably do all right – with bikers at least – by wearing this:

Tron Legacy poster

All right. Maybe not. They’re still just a little too sci-fi, aren’t they?

But the merchandisers of Tron: Legacy know this and have come up with “similar but different” fashion goodies. Consider this $795 shoe, for example:

A Tron shoe

Or this handbag:

Tron Legacy purse

You could get away with them, don’t you think?

But, if you have the cash and truly are a geek, how about this: an actual lightcycle you can ride on roads?

Tron lightcycle

Now that’s cool.

[This and an iPod dock, keyboard, mouse, et al via]

Author

  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

    View all posts